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AUCHEL COMMUNAL CEMETERY 
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​Pas De Calais

​France


GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 50.51221, Longitude: 2.46701

Location Information

Auchel is a small town in the Pas de Calais 15 kilometres west of Bethune. A sign in the town shows the direction of the communal cemetery.

There is one plot of Commonwealth war graves in Plot 2, located in the centre right hand of the cemetery, and one plot in Plot 4 which is in the rear right hand of the cemetery.



Historical Information

Auchel Communal Cemetery contains four Commonwealth burials of the First World War, two of them unidentified.


Shot at Dawn

10874 Private James G. Carr, 2nd Bn. Welsh Regiment executed for desertion on 7th February 1916, aged 21. (Picture of grave in gallery below). He compounded his offence by escaping whilst under arrest; & was executed just over 2 weeks after his trial. (Putkowski, p. 62)​

Other Identified burial

2254 Private E. Sullivan, 19th Bn. London Regiment who died on the 23rd November 1915 aged 21. Sons of Norah Sullivan, of 17 Buxton St. Goswell Road, London. His headstone bears the inscription "Ever Loved By "Mum"


​Images in gallery below © Johan Pauwels

Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery
Auchel Communal Cemetery

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